Comments on: Complex Trauma, False Gratitude, and Letting Go https://cptsdfoundation.org/2021/11/15/complex-trauma-false-gratitude-and-letting-go/ The Foundation for Post-Traumatic Healing and Complex Trauma Research Fri, 27 Dec 2024 16:58:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: T https://cptsdfoundation.org/2021/11/15/complex-trauma-false-gratitude-and-letting-go/#comment-30360 Fri, 27 Dec 2024 16:58:24 +0000 https://cptsdfoundation.org/?p=239133#comment-30360 This is where I am in in the process. Brought me to tears to read this part below as you have truly described it to the T. I feel seen. You are a miracle! It’s an epic benchmark to me to have reached a matured neurological stage after years of memory-processing…the “plague of the cptsd survivor” is so accurate. Those memories swarmed in my field and didn’t allow me to focus on my studies until I dealt with them.

*Letting go means we allow the past to be the past allowing ourselves to heal. We can let go of the pain and sorrow if we want to and move on into the future with confidence and sincerity. Letting go allows us to grow without the hindrance of the past obscuring the way we see the world and other people. This vital step in healing comes after much work on the memories that plague a survivor of child abuse and neglect.

Having reached letting go, we will have an awakening to who we are and what we want out of life. Until then, we inadvertently live under the thumb of those who harmed us.*

]]> By: Gratitude and The Trauma-Sensitive Approach - Learn About DID https://cptsdfoundation.org/2021/11/15/complex-trauma-false-gratitude-and-letting-go/#comment-12192 Mon, 22 Nov 2021 17:26:30 +0000 https://cptsdfoundation.org/?p=239133#comment-12192 […] often survivors of complex trauma are bombarded during the Thanksgiving season with advertisements and other media about how they […]

]]>